It was announced yesterday that Los Angeles Dodgers' manager Joe Torre has elevated Ken Howell to bullpen coach for his 2008 squad, thus continuing the trend of former Phillies jumping to the coaching ranks in recent times, as I covered in a recent post. Howell had previously served as a pitching coach for the Las Vegas 51s and two other Dodger farm teams. Mr. Howell pitched for the Phillies in 1989-1990, after being traded from the Baltimore Orioles in the 1988 offseason (where he was officially on the team for just four days), in exchange for Phil Bradley. Interesting to note is that he came off of a shoulder injury and then pitched to a record of 30-29 for the beleagured squad Phils' squad over two years. During his seven year career, he went 38-48 with a 3.95 ERA, with 549 K's in 613.3 innings. It may be worth noting that the only major statistical category that he ever lead the league in for a season was for hurling 21 wild pitches in 1989.
So what's the conclusion here?
Clearly there's something in the Philly wudder (water) for all of these former players and coaches to be hired around the league as coaches. Further testing will need to be implemented.
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